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Lisa Joy

Screenwriter & Producer Co-Creator of Westworld

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Lisa Joy is the co-creator, co-showrunner, and executive
producer of HBO's Westworld. Highly regarded for her genre
writing, Joy directs and produces the show through her multi-year
overall deal with Warner Bros. Television. Additionally, Joy serves
as President of Production at

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Lisa Joy is the co-creator, co-showrunner, and executive
producer of HBO's Westworld. Highly regarded for her genre
writing, Joy directs and produces the show through her multi-year
overall deal with Warner Bros. Television. Additionally, Joy serves
as President of Production at Kilter Films, the production company
she and Jonathan Nolan set up, which produces Westworld
under its banner.

Along with Westworld, Joy has several
highly-anticipated film projects in the works, including the film
adaptation ofBattlestar Galactica for Universal and the
feature script, Reminiscence, which placed on the 2013
Black List.

Prior to her career in entertainment, Joy graduated from
Stanford undergrad and Harvard Law School. She then went on to work
as a management consultant in the tech sector and to practice law
in California. Joy’s writing career began on the Emmy
Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated ABC show, Pushing
Daisies, which earned her a Writers Guild Nomination. She
later joined the staff of USA Network’s Emmy Award-nominated
show, Burn Notice, as a co-producer.

Joy grew up in New Jersey. She is biracial and a first
generation Asian American. Joy currently resides in Los Angeles
with her husband and two children.

Westworld - Lisa Joy Interview: Warner Bros. UK

Lisa Joy is staying put at Warner Bros. Television. The Westworld
co-creator has renewed her overall deal with the independent studio
behind the HBO hit. Joy's new deal, said to be in the eight-figure
range, will see her continue on as co-showrunner… Read more

As a first-generation daughter of British and Taiwanese immigrants,
Lisa Joy was raised to seek out a career that would provide, above
all else, stability. But she loved writing, and wrote for fun
throughout her time at Stanford and then Harvard Law… Read more

My day job, in lieu of teaching creative writing like a normal
person, is writing scripts for blockbuster video games. Last
summer, while I watched a play-through of the then-unreleased Gears
of War 4, for which I was the lead writer, something… Read more

A fly landing on an eyeball, the light touch of a finger on a
synthetic lip, a naked human form sitting exposed as an object of
beauty formed by either god or man—Westworld is a show that
explores what it means to… Read more